Maurice Herzog Professions : Mountaineer Born : January 15, 1919 Died : December 13, 2012 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Maurice Herzog For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread. Maurice Herzog climbing mountain life-and-death The mountains were there and so was I. Maurice Herzog mountain-climbing mountain hiking In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor. Maurice Herzog touching men world Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life. Maurice Herzog climbing pain joy There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men. Maurice Herzog lives other men 'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel. Maurice Herzog sort true novel Similar Authors Bradford Washburn mountaineer Armand Charlet mountaineer Arlene Blum mountaineer Annie Smith Peck mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev mountaineer Doug Scott mountaineer All Authors